The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-06-11

A cLoUD-BURsT did great damage in
Oberlin, o., on the 5th.
RUSSIA is negotiating with the Roths-
childs to refund part of the public debt
at lower rate Of interest.
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A NUMBER OF New York hotels disre-
garded the Sunday Liquor law on the 9Th,
and tests in court are to be made at once
CONFLICTS have occurred at Bodyke.
Ireland, over the renewal of evictions of
certain tenants. Serious troubles arc ap-
pretended.
A PARIS paper asserts that the police
department are keeping from the public
the real extent of loss of life in the Opera
Comique fire.
The total number Of cases of yellow
fever at Key West, Fla, up to the Sd, was
thirteen, of which number four had re-
suited fatally, Six were sick and three
convalescent.
THE advance of Russian troops upon
the Afghan from tier has been greatly ac-
CELEBRATED within the last few weeks, and
the English authorities in India are
preparing to meet them.
TIE final estimate of victims of the
burned Paris Opera Comique places the
number at 130, including the remains of
forty persons found in the ruins so badly
burned as to be.unrecognizable.
Ex-VIoE PRESIDENT VIM. A. WHEELER
was reported dying at Malone, N. Y, on
the I'd. He was unconscious and while he
may live several days his death at any
moment would not be unex pected.
A THUNDERSTORM on the 4th gre atty
damaged the crops in Southwestern G err
many. Several lives were lost by fresh
cts. The Saar Moselle and other tribu-
taries of the Rhine rose very rapidly.
REV. GRANVILLE MOODY, the famous
Ohio chaplain known as the fighting
parson," died on the 9TH at Mt Vernon,
Ia, from injuries received in runaway
accident. He was seventy-slx years old.
AMONG the many celebrities present to
witness the race for the grand prize of
Paris on the 9Th was General Boulanger.
He was loudly applauded by the crowd
when he made his appearance, and again
upon his departure.
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JOHN BROWN and Edward Hogan, be-
longing to the Gloucester Mass fishing
schooner Richard Lester, were recently
picked up at sea in a dory and landed at
North Sydney, n s., after having been
adrift six days without food or water.
THE Leutenant-Gener of the army has
fixed upon September 10 next as the date
for the beginning Of the annual rife COM
petition between distinguished marks
men Of the army. The match will take
place at Bellevue Rifle range, near ON aha
Neb. Ff
CAPTAIN JACK HUssEY, the hero of Castle
Garden and the owner Of twenty medals
for saving men and women from drown
ing, having rescued thirty-four persons
from the water was shot and mortally
wounded by policeman Edward Hahn, in
New York, on the I'd.
HANLAN, the oarsman, announces that
on his return to Canada he will challenge
Gaudaur to row the recent race over
again, on the same course, under exactly
similar conditions. The defeated cham
pion expresses himself certain that he
can outrow Gaudaur
THE health of the Crown Prince Fred
'erick William of Germany is rapidly i'm
proving. The foreign growth, which has
affected his throat is much smaller than
it was prlor to the operation performed
by Dr. Mackenzie, and does not in any
way interfere with his breathing.
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DIR. E. A. KNoTzER, for thirteen years
editor of the SesbOte, at Milwaukee, Wis,
has accepted the position of editor of the
German humorous paper Puck, in New
York, for which he has been working as
contributor DIR. Knotzer is one of the
ablest editors of the Wisconsin press.
SIX couples went to Washington from
Richmond, Va, on the I'd, to get married.
The cheapness Of the marriage licenses
attracted them. They saved enough by
purchasing licenses in Washington to pay
their expenses from Richmond, thus Sc
curing the cheapest bridal tour on record
THE Treasury Department has decided
that importations of wool can only bt
subjected to duty as secured wool upoT
evidence that it has been cleaned by
chemical or mechanical process. In the
absence Of such evidence no matter how
clean the wool may be, it is entitled t
entry as washed.
The gradual substitution of electric
light for gas, and the adoption of better
mechanical methods and the more judi
cious purchase of coal for the public
buildings throughout the country have re
suited in a saving of about S6),0 unde
the appropriation for fuel, light and wate
for the current fiscal year
r. A. upper, who says he is Sunday
school superintendent in Fairfield, Ia,
complained TO the New York police on the
2d that he had been robbed OF S40O, bu
subsequently confessed that he went t
New York intending to buy counterfeit
money. The swimllers robbed him by
placing his satchel with another in {
saloon.
AT the close of the week ended the All
the Detroits still hel6 the lead in the